Objectively Determined Resolution-Dependent Threshold Criteria for the...

Journal of Climate;  May 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of observed tropical cyclones, averaged at...the threshold wind speed of an observed...justified. Not all wind speed criteria account...difference in wind speed that occurs...define observed tropical cyclones. For instance, a 10-m wind speed ...

The effects of climatological and persistence variables on the intensities...

Weather and Forecasting;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......latitude, maximum wind speed, 12-h change of maximum wind speed, longitude, distance...intensities of tropical cyclones over the eastern...determined by wind speed) over periods...Latitude, maximum wind speed, and the 12-h change of maximum wind ...

AMS Endorsement of WMO Statement on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  March 1, 2007 ;     679 words ......Statement on Tropical Cyclones and Climate...Workshop on Tropical Cyclones of the World...change and tropical cyclones, including...attention on tropical cyclones due to the...landfalling tropical cyclones in Japan in 2004, five tropical ...

An Empirical Model for Predicting the Decay of Tropical Cyclone Wind Speed...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......associated with tropical cyclones after landfall...predicting the wind speed of tropical cyclones after landfall...for predicting wind speed after landfall...cases of intense tropical cyclones (wind speed more than 64...

Objective detection of tropical cyclones in high-resolution analyses

Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......of observed tropical cyclones in high-resolution...Introduction Tropical cyclones are intense...resemble those of tropical cyclones. The early...resolution intense tropical cyclones may not be...identified as tropical cyclones is one of the...propensity of ...

Probabilistic Prediction of Tropical Cyclones. Part II: Intensity

Monthly Weather Review;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......intensity (defined as maximum wind speed) prediction of tropical cyclones is presented. Based on statistical...the intensity (here maximum wind speed, henceforth abbreviated by υ^sub m^) of tropical cyclones, the subject of this part...

Sea spray in tropical cyclones

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  January 1, 2002 ;     326 words ...The maximum surface wind speed of tropical cyclones (i.e., their intensity...flux is roughly cubic in wind speed. When this relation is used...transfer coefficients with wind speed. When spray droplets are...them rapidly to the local wind speed. The momentum ...

Effect of Surface Waves on Air-Sea Momentum Exchange. Part II: Behavior of...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......momentum flux at high wind speed, including hurricane...C^sub d^) with wind speed. Under hurricane...even decrease with wind speed. This tendency is...situations such as tropical cyclones, accurate estimation...sub 0^) depends on wind speed, as well as on ...

Gulf Stream and ENSO Increase the Temperature Sensitivity of Atlantic...

Journal of Climate;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......surface temperatures (SST) and the frequency of tropical cyclones or hurricanes. Here, 135 yr of observational records...of the transportion of heat northward from the tropical Atlantic. At 5-yr periods there is significant...cyclones by 2 yr, and this is associated with tropical ENSO activity ...

On the Changes in the Number and Intensity of North Atlantic Tropical...

Journal of Climate;  March 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......developed for the number of tropical cyclones, the rate at which these...improbable that the number of tropical cyclones has linearly increased...a function of the cubed wind speed of a storm over its lifetime...increases, and that the wind speed adjustments used by ...

Tropical Cyclones and Transient Upper-Ocean Warming

Journal of Climate;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......evolution of tropical cyclones. Here the authors...interplay between tropical cyclones and upper-ocean...sensitivity of maximum wind speed in a cyclone...wind speeds in tropical cyclones and their potential...the maximum wind speed ...

Global warming does not intensify tropical cyclones: experts

Xinhua News Agency;  April 1, 2003 ;     349 words ...Global warming does not intensify tropical cyclones: experts BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhua...does not increase the intensity of tropical cyclones in China, said experts at the International...the past 50 years. The intensity of tropical cyclones was greatly affected by the change...

Observations of Particle Size and Phase in Tropical Cyclones: Implications...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  February 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Mesoscale model simulations of tropical cyclones are sensitive to representations...clouds not associated with tropical cyclones, and hence their suitability for use in simulations of tropical cyclones is not known. Here, representations...

NASA's Seawinds Instrument Casts a Closer Eye on Tropical Cyclones; Study...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ......that might become tropical cyclones prior to their...rotating winds. Tropical cyclones are also known...depending on their wind speed. The National Hurricane...the genesis of tropical cyclones by watching the...detection of potential tropical cyclones ...

The effects of vertical wind shear on the distribution of convection in...

Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......distribution of cloud-to-ground lightning in tropical cyclones was examined using flash locations...The study covers 35 Atlantic basin tropical cyclones from 1985-99 while they were over...argued that in convectively active tropical cyclones, deep divergent circulations oppose...